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shippingmath) wrote2012-12-09 02:42 pm
shippingmath) wrote2012-12-09 02:42 pm
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[ Player Name ] : Silk
[ Personal DW ] :silkweaver
[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : EST
[ Other Characters ] : Gale (donotcomprehend) | Digital Devil Saga
[ Character's Name ] : Dirk Strider
[ Character's Age ] : 15
[ Series ] : Homestuck
[ Canon Point ] : Dirk: Unite
[ History ] : Your name is Dirk Strider. Holy shit do you love puppets.
[ Personality ] :
During a conversation with Jane, Dirk told her; “If it puts your mind at ease, I'll be the one pulling the strings here.” It’s a perfect description from the mouth of the Prince of Heart himself. Dirk is in all things a plotter and a schemer. He has plans upon plans for whatever challenges he and his friends may come across, and even when things go wrong, he’s the one who takes charge. He had the foresight to pretend he was still asleep on Derse in order to get more information, and he was prepared to take over as Jane’s server player at the drop of a hat when things started to go wrong in their session. He’s not omniscient, so there are things he doesn’t plan for or expect, such as Jake and Jane appearing on Derse, but after he gets over his surprise, he gets to work, and manages to not only revive all of his friends, but gather them in one place with a very complicated plan that required very fast thinking, good timing, and a willingness to first kill himself, then to trust Jake to revive him.
There’s no question that Dirk cares about his friends. His over-the-top gifts to Jane and Jake should prove it, if nothing else, considering how much time and effort he put into creating robots for them. He gives steadfast advice to all of them (talking to Roxy about their playing SBURG, and telling Jake and Jane that they need to be more like one another). Sometimes, though, the way he shows that he cares can be convoluted. The closer he is to a person, the more dedicated he is to making them stronger, and he will act in an infuriating manner while doing so. His interactions with Jake, for example: He gives Jake a robot that constantly beats him up in fights, he forces Jake to talk to the auto-responder instead of Dirk himself. He's doing all of this to make Jake a better fighter, and less gullible, but he's still being rather infuriating through the process of it.
He doesn’t just apply this idea of constant improvement to himself, though. It’s true that Dirk presents a rather inflated opinion of himself as being the bastion of cool, but at least some of that is earned, and there’s some sort of humility under there. He constantly builds robots and fights to the death against them, for example, doing the same sort of thing he’s subjected Jake to. As for his rapping, he made two rap-bots to fight against. Squarewave is a robot he can always beat, but he made Sawtooth to be insanely better than him, and he’s never managed to beat him.
His constant efforts at improvement have certainly paid off. He was able to face down Imperial drones, though he only survived because of Sawtooth's help. His curiosity has left him with a comprehensive knowledge of history- he is basically able to tell Jake exactly how the Condesce took over Earth, and there are quite a few sections that he could apparently go into more detail about. He learned how to build robots, how to draw, taught himself language and how to read, all on his own. There was no one to push him to do anything, so he did it all himself.
The thing about Dirk is, he’s extremely aloof. His habit of layering his words with ironic meaning doesn’t help- even when he’s saying something sincerely, everyone around him has to look for hidden meanings in what he says, because there's always something. Some of that is part of the way he grew up, since he’s lived alone his entire life. The only contact he’s had with real people, until the game started, was to talk to three other kids through the internet. The rest of it is just his personality. Of all of the human kids in Homestuck, he shows the least amount of expression. Half the time, the canon art of him doesn't even have a mouth or eyebrows drawn in, that's how blank his face is. He feels the need to be on top of everything (I will not apologize for the phrasing) and show that he knows what he’s doing. Talking about his feelings doesn’t exactly help with that. The closest he comes to admitting to a problem is discussing uncertainty over affairs on Derse with UranianUmbra. Some of this aloofness comes through in his love of math- he’s likely to fall back to algorithms and formulas, though not as frequently as his auto-responder does. The only robot with a complete and mostly human personality he makes is actually the auto-responder, who is literally a copy of himself.
Even despite his aloofness, Dirk is... well, the best way to say it is ‘pretty damn weird.’ He’s got an obsession with puppets and smuppets and a habit of describing them in extreme detail that weirds out everyone he talks to. He likes horses and has pictures of “swole bunny men” on his computer. He likes hats even though he doesn’t/can’t wear them. He takes things too far, whether they’re jokes about teaching Jane irony, or making his part of a set of heirloom rabbits. He raps. He idolizes his ancestor for standing up to the Condesce through his films and for fighting her. Of course, most of this only makes him fit in with his friends even more, since they're just as weird as he is, but they're still silly little quirks that make Dirk who he is.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths: The most basic strength Dirk has is that he's prepared to Get Shit Done at any given time, whether that requires strategy or fighting. In general, he's a pretty smart and competent guy. He's the king of keeping a straight face in almost all situations. He is essentially a modern day renaissance man.
Weaknesses: Because of where he's spent his life, Dirk has no practical experience in dealing with people face to face. Everything he's learned has come through media of some sort. On top of that, no matter how good he might think he is, he can't really multitask that well. His habit of pushing people to their limits, along with his aloof attitude, can also make him pretty hard to get along with.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
Dirk's sunglasses contain a program that's basically a version of his thirteen-year-old self transplanted into a program, and set loose on the world. It's the Auto-Responder, more recently known as Lil Hal, and Dirk thinks of it as basically a person very similar to himself, though no longer actually him.
[ Sample ] : A link!
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : Basically- What do about the AR? With no internet to connect it to, would it be stuck in his sunglasses, or would it be able to be transferred to his SFC? Would it be able to contact other people in the bubble? Should it just be left as his IC voicemail answering machine?
[ Personal DW ] :
silkweaver[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : EST
[ Other Characters ] : Gale (
donotcomprehend) | Digital Devil Saga[ Character's Name ] : Dirk Strider
[ Character's Age ] : 15
[ Series ] : Homestuck
[ Canon Point ] : Dirk: Unite
[ History ] : Your name is Dirk Strider. Holy shit do you love puppets.
[ Personality ] :
During a conversation with Jane, Dirk told her; “If it puts your mind at ease, I'll be the one pulling the strings here.” It’s a perfect description from the mouth of the Prince of Heart himself. Dirk is in all things a plotter and a schemer. He has plans upon plans for whatever challenges he and his friends may come across, and even when things go wrong, he’s the one who takes charge. He had the foresight to pretend he was still asleep on Derse in order to get more information, and he was prepared to take over as Jane’s server player at the drop of a hat when things started to go wrong in their session. He’s not omniscient, so there are things he doesn’t plan for or expect, such as Jake and Jane appearing on Derse, but after he gets over his surprise, he gets to work, and manages to not only revive all of his friends, but gather them in one place with a very complicated plan that required very fast thinking, good timing, and a willingness to first kill himself, then to trust Jake to revive him.
There’s no question that Dirk cares about his friends. His over-the-top gifts to Jane and Jake should prove it, if nothing else, considering how much time and effort he put into creating robots for them. He gives steadfast advice to all of them (talking to Roxy about their playing SBURG, and telling Jake and Jane that they need to be more like one another). Sometimes, though, the way he shows that he cares can be convoluted. The closer he is to a person, the more dedicated he is to making them stronger, and he will act in an infuriating manner while doing so. His interactions with Jake, for example: He gives Jake a robot that constantly beats him up in fights, he forces Jake to talk to the auto-responder instead of Dirk himself. He's doing all of this to make Jake a better fighter, and less gullible, but he's still being rather infuriating through the process of it.
He doesn’t just apply this idea of constant improvement to himself, though. It’s true that Dirk presents a rather inflated opinion of himself as being the bastion of cool, but at least some of that is earned, and there’s some sort of humility under there. He constantly builds robots and fights to the death against them, for example, doing the same sort of thing he’s subjected Jake to. As for his rapping, he made two rap-bots to fight against. Squarewave is a robot he can always beat, but he made Sawtooth to be insanely better than him, and he’s never managed to beat him.
His constant efforts at improvement have certainly paid off. He was able to face down Imperial drones, though he only survived because of Sawtooth's help. His curiosity has left him with a comprehensive knowledge of history- he is basically able to tell Jake exactly how the Condesce took over Earth, and there are quite a few sections that he could apparently go into more detail about. He learned how to build robots, how to draw, taught himself language and how to read, all on his own. There was no one to push him to do anything, so he did it all himself.
The thing about Dirk is, he’s extremely aloof. His habit of layering his words with ironic meaning doesn’t help- even when he’s saying something sincerely, everyone around him has to look for hidden meanings in what he says, because there's always something. Some of that is part of the way he grew up, since he’s lived alone his entire life. The only contact he’s had with real people, until the game started, was to talk to three other kids through the internet. The rest of it is just his personality. Of all of the human kids in Homestuck, he shows the least amount of expression. Half the time, the canon art of him doesn't even have a mouth or eyebrows drawn in, that's how blank his face is. He feels the need to be on top of everything (I will not apologize for the phrasing) and show that he knows what he’s doing. Talking about his feelings doesn’t exactly help with that. The closest he comes to admitting to a problem is discussing uncertainty over affairs on Derse with UranianUmbra. Some of this aloofness comes through in his love of math- he’s likely to fall back to algorithms and formulas, though not as frequently as his auto-responder does. The only robot with a complete and mostly human personality he makes is actually the auto-responder, who is literally a copy of himself.
Even despite his aloofness, Dirk is... well, the best way to say it is ‘pretty damn weird.’ He’s got an obsession with puppets and smuppets and a habit of describing them in extreme detail that weirds out everyone he talks to. He likes horses and has pictures of “swole bunny men” on his computer. He likes hats even though he doesn’t/can’t wear them. He takes things too far, whether they’re jokes about teaching Jane irony, or making his part of a set of heirloom rabbits. He raps. He idolizes his ancestor for standing up to the Condesce through his films and for fighting her. Of course, most of this only makes him fit in with his friends even more, since they're just as weird as he is, but they're still silly little quirks that make Dirk who he is.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths: The most basic strength Dirk has is that he's prepared to Get Shit Done at any given time, whether that requires strategy or fighting. In general, he's a pretty smart and competent guy. He's the king of keeping a straight face in almost all situations. He is essentially a modern day renaissance man.
Weaknesses: Because of where he's spent his life, Dirk has no practical experience in dealing with people face to face. Everything he's learned has come through media of some sort. On top of that, no matter how good he might think he is, he can't really multitask that well. His habit of pushing people to their limits, along with his aloof attitude, can also make him pretty hard to get along with.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
Dirk's sunglasses contain a program that's basically a version of his thirteen-year-old self transplanted into a program, and set loose on the world. It's the Auto-Responder, more recently known as Lil Hal, and Dirk thinks of it as basically a person very similar to himself, though no longer actually him.
[ Sample ] : A link!
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : Basically- What do about the AR? With no internet to connect it to, would it be stuck in his sunglasses, or would it be able to be transferred to his SFC? Would it be able to contact other people in the bubble? Should it just be left as his IC voicemail answering machine?